Emil Cioran Quotes
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
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In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.
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Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
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No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
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You don't fall in love with someone because they're perfect and meet your requirements - you fall for the things that are different about them or even problematic.
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Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all
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The universal view melts things into a blur.
